Martyrdom and Rome
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 3, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780521530491
Subjects: Christianity; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History: World; History - General History; Europe; Ancient - General; History; History / Ancient / General; Persecution--History--Early church, ca. 30-60; Persecution--History--Early church, ca. 30-600; Religion-History
First sentence: Towards the end of the reign of the Roman emperor Commodus, in the last years of the decade of the 180s AD, a Roman governor in the province of Asia was conducting his normal judicial activities when a throng of excited people pushed forward to stand before his tribunal.